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Sophus Jacobsen Documented profileNorway
Norwegian landscape painter Sophus Jacobsen (1833–1912) is born in Fredrikshald, now Halden, and dies in Düsseldorf. His study trips take him to Norway, Italy and Germany. Among the…
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Saul Steinberg Documented profileRomania · United States
Saul Erik Steinberg (1914–1999), a Romanian-American artist, developed a body of work spanning editorial drawing, books, mural painting and applied design. The covers, drawings and c…
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Salomon van Ruysdael Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch landscape painter Salomon van Ruysdael devoted his work mainly to flatland landscapes, shores, and river or canal scenes. Born around 1602 in Naarden, he died in Haarlem on…
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Sophus Hansen Documented profileGermany
The German painter and lithographer Ernst Friedrich Sophus Hansen was born in Glücksburg in 1871 and died there in 1959; his career developed between Weimar, Hamburg and, once again,…
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Surendran Nair Documented profileIndia
Indian artist Surendran Nair, born in 1956 in Kerala, in southern India, studies painting at the School of Fine Arts in Trivandrum, then pursues postgraduate studies at the Faculty o…
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Seund Ja Rhee Documented profileSouth Korea
She favours woodblock printing and makes her prints by hand; sometimes, she presses the carved blocks directly onto the paper. Her visual vocabulary draws on the symbols and characte…
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Salomon Rombouts Documented profileCountry to be documented
A landscape painter associated with Haarlem, Salomon Rombouts trained with his father, Gillis Rombouts, who was also a painter. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke…
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Stanisław Stückgold Documented profilePoland
Stanisław Stückgold, also known as Stanislaus or Stanislas Stückgold, was a painter born in 1868 and died in 1933. Before devoting himself to painting, he studied at the Polytechniku…
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Serge Charchoune Documented profileFrance
Serge Charchoune’s practice unfolds between two documented orientations: purist paintings and, in parallel, a return to ornamental painting in the series *Elastic Landscapes*. In Par…
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Sławomir Elsner Documented profilePoland
Polish painter Sławomir Elsner is represented here by PANORAMA 21 (Fiat Polski in Babylon), an oil on canvas from 2006, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, measuring 75 × 45 cm.…
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Silvio Poma Documented profileCountry to be documented
Silvio Poma is known for his landscapes and views of lakes, particularly in Lombardy. In the following decades, his exhibitions span much of Italy. A view of Lake Maggiore is present…
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Sol LeWitt Documented profileUnited States
Born in Hartford in 1928 and died in New York in 2007, Sol LeWitt was an American artist whose practice brings together systems of composition and their material realisation. His wor…
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Simon de Vlieger Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Simon de Vlieger was born in Rotterdam in 1601, according to one source, while another places his birth around the same year; his earliest known works date from 162…
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Sebastiaen Vrancx Documented profileCountry to be documented
According to Carel van Mander, Sébastien Vrancx was apprenticed to Adam van Noort. His collaborations with Jan Brueghel the Elder distinguish the roles: Brueghel painted the landscap…
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Salvator Rosa Documented profileCountry to be documented
The work of Salvator Rosa encompasses landscape, history painting, allegory, portraiture and printmaking. In his landscapes, ruins and brigands make up scenes described by sources as…
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Sean Scully Documented profileIreland · United States
Sean Scully’s paintings are often arranged in overlapping bands or blocks of colour, distributed along horizontal and vertical axes. Their layers strike a balance between calm and vi…
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Servando Cabrera Moreno Documented profileCuba
Born in Havana in 1923, Servando Cabrera Moreno was a Cuban painter who lived until 1981. After graduating from the San Alejandro Academy in 1942, he continued his training at the Ar…
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Serge Lifar Documented profileFrance
Serge Lifar (1905–1986) is a figure in dance whose career combines choreographic creation and the reform of technique. He studies dance in Kyiv with Bronislava Nijinska, then works i…
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Stefan Szczesny Documented profileGermany
Born in Munich in 1951, Stefan Szczesny’s career traces a movement from abstract painting towards figuration, which he associates with an art «in search of a connection with life». D…
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Siebe Johannes ten Cate Documented profileNetherlands
Born in Sneek in 1858 and died in Paris in 1908, Siebe Johannes ten Cate developed a body of work in which landscapes and urban views often appear in rain or snow. This preference fo…
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Stephan Sedlacek Documented profileAustria
Stephan Sedlacek (1868–1936) is a painter whose works combine scenes of affluent social life, elegant clothing and sumptuous interiors. The figures are depicted on a small scale, fra…
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Simon Kramer Documented profileNetherlands
Auction listings record a range of subjects in Simon Kramer’s work, from floral still lifes to bazaar and street scenes. A signed floral still life is executed in oil on canvas and m…
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Sandro Chia Documented profileItaly
Italian painter and printmaker born in 1946, Sandro Chia is listed in the Tate directory as an artist. Works listed there include The Artifice, To the Tower, About the Unseizable, A…
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Salvo Documented profileItaly
The Italian artist Salvo (1947–2015) is known by this name. Notturno, dated 1988, is an oil on paper mounted on canvas, measuring 535 × 380 mm. Its provenance mentions Galerie Friedr…
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Siegward Sprotte Documented profileGermany
The German painter Siegward Sprotte, born in 1913 and died in 2004, is described as having first been a private pupil of Adolf Dahle. In 1938, he took part in the Berlin exhibition o…
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Simon Pietersz Verelst Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Dutch painter Simon Pietersz Verelst, born in The Hague in 1644 and died in London in 1721, is generally known as Simon Verelst. He divided his career between the United Province…
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Sandor Kozeluh Documented profileCountry to be documented
An artwork catalogued under the name Sandor Kozeluh is titled Das Volkstheater in Wien. Executed in watercolour and gouache, it is signed and dated 1900; the entry also notes the ins…
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Samuel Mützner Documented profileRomania
The Romanian painter Samuel Mützner is born in Bucharest on 13 December 1884 and dies there on 2 October 1959. Samuel Mützner studies in Munich and Paris. The biographical entry refe…
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Shlomo Koren Documented profileIsrael · Netherlands
Born in Cologne in 1932, Shlomo Koren left Germany with his parents in 1936; the family settled in Palestine under the British Mandate. He trained at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem…
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Silvano Bozzolini Documented profileItaly
Silvano Bozzolini’s practice spans abstract painting, works on paper and stained glass. After creating his first abstract painting in 1946, he pursues wood engraving, illustration an…
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Shirley Jaffe Documented profileFrance · United States
The published provenance of Yellow Moon mentions the Jean Fournier gallery in Paris, followed by a Swiss private owner who is said to have acquired the work from that gallery at the…
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Stanley Boxer Documented profileUnited States
Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Stanley Boxer developed a practice spanning painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture. After serving during the Second World War, he studied at the Art S…
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Serge Fiorio Documented profileFrance
Based in Montjustin from the spring of 1947, Serge Fiorio lived and painted there until his death in 2011; his arrival with his family at the village’s former presbytery marks a peri…
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Sava Sekulić Documented profileCroatia
Sava Sekulić began painting in 1932, but did not devote himself to it full time until 1962, when he retired. Before then, he worked, among other occupations, as an agricultural labou…
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Suzanne Valadon Documented profileFrance
Suzanne Valadon, a French painter born in 1865 and deceased in 1938, is represented in the Art Institute of Chicago’s catalogue by works spanning several decades. Louise Nude on a So…
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Simon Andreas Krausz Documented profileNetherlands
The Dutch painter Simon Andreas Krausz lived from 1760 to 1825. A work referenced under his name is executed in pen and brush, in brown and black; it bears an indistinct signature at…
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Seif Wanly Documented profileEgypt
The Egyptian painter Seif Wanly, born in Alexandria in 1906, worked in Alexandria’s customs archives and began painting with his brother Adham. From 1929, the two brothers studied wi…
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Saverio Dalla Rosa Documented profileCountry to be documented
The Italian painter Saverio dalla Rosa, whose dates are given as 1745–1821, was the nephew and pupil of Giambettino Cignaroli. A drawing entitled “Landschaft mit rastendem Hirten” is…
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Salvatore Maldarelli Documented profileCountry to be documented
A group of five oil paintings by Salvatore Maldarelli brings together genre scenes in a Pompeian setting; according to the sales notice, one of them is signed and dated at lower righ…
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Sacha Zaliouk Documented profileCountry to be documented
Born Alexandre Zaliouk in Radomychl in 1887, Sacha Zaliouk is active as a painter, illustrator and sculptor. He dies in Paris in 1971. Between 1904 and 1910, he studies painting in P…
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Shōichi Hasegawa Documented profileJapan
The Japanese painter and printmaker Shōichi Hasegawa (1929–2023) developed an abstract body of work that brings together East Asian calligraphy, the traditional symbolism of forms an…
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Salvador Dalí Documented profileSpain
Born in Catalonia, a regional identity he asserted, Salvador Dalí developed a practice that extended well beyond painting: drawing, sculpture, theatrical set design, fashion, print a…
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Spyridon Scarvelli Documented profileCountry to be documented
Spyridon Scarvelli’s landscapes, vedute and seascapes range across Egypt, Italy and Greece, and are executed almost exclusively in watercolour. An auction catalogue states that he tr…
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Stefan Domaradzki Documented profileFrance · Poland
The Polish painter Stefan Domaradzki (1897–1983) is associated, among other things, with landscape painting. A commentary on his work describes his landscapes as carefully painted an…
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Serge Poliakoff Documented profileFrance
Serge Poliakoff’s painting is characterised by compositions in which areas of different colours are juxtaposed. His shift from a hitherto academic style to abstract painting is assoc…
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Sonia Delaunay Documented profileFrance
The painter and textile designer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) is documented here through abstract works and pieces intended for clothing or furnishing. These references reveal a practi…
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Shmuel Shapiro Documented profileUnited States
The documented career of Shmuel Shapiro links several places of study in the United States: he studied at the Art School in Hartford from 1939 to 1943, then resumed his studies there…
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Sam Francis Documented profileUnited States
Born in 1923 and deceased in 1994, Sam Francis is also known as Samuel Lewis Francis. The Art Institute of Chicago entries list several of his works: Red No. 2 (1954), Another Disapp…
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GND / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / lobid · CC0 · RKDartists / RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History · ODC-BY 1.0 · 11.10.2026
ICCD / Ministero della Cultura — Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali · CC-BY 4.0 · National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Cleveland Museum of Art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) · Open Access · CC0 · 12.10.2026